单词 | blighting |
释义 | blight1 of 2noun ˈblīt 1 botany a : a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) potato blight b : an organism (such as an insect or a fungus) that causes blight 2 : something that frustrates plans or hopes the blight of poverty an abandoned factory that was a blight on the neighborhood 3 : something that impairs or destroys … censorship … has brought under its blight Ireland's greatest poets, dramatists, and scholars. Paul Blanshard 4 : a deteriorated condition urban blight blight 2 of 2verb blighted; blighting; blights transitive verb 1 botany : to affect (a plant) with a disease or injury marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) : to affect with blight (see blight entry 1 sense 1) The apple trees were blighted by fungus. 2 : to impair the quality or effect of the condition that has blighted his son's life Patricia Guthrie intransitive verb botany : to suffer from or become affected with blight The potatoes blighted. blighting verbas in impairing Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance
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